Sunday, October 15, 2017

AUTUMN LEAVES

The challenge at CAS Watercolour this month is fall leaves. Awhile back I had seen this video and wanted to give it a try. It's called "watercolor dip" and involves soaking your die cut in water and then dropping colors onto the wet piece. So I die cut a bunch of leaves from watercolor paper, soaked them and started adding colors. It was fun and fast to do. After they were dry, I added the gold embossed veins.

For the card on the left, I used a distress oxide background and the one on the right is just some watercolours. I can't decide which one I like better so am entering both.

I am also entering my cards at Dies R Us where the challenge is "leaves" and Happy Little Stampers challenge which is watercolour with a twist of gold.

Both are so beautiful! I can see why you couldn't decide which one you liked best. Love that watercolour dip technique and adding the veins with gold embossing. Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Watercolour!

Both cards are gorgeous, Betty. I LOVE the mix of colours you've used for your background and for your leaves ... so beautiful! The gold veins add even more shiny goodness. Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour! xx

Both of these are equally beautiful, Betty! I'd forgotten about this technique. I need to give it a try! It makes for some gorgeous fall leaves! Thanks so much for sharing these with us at CAS Watercolour!

Oh Betty, I'm so embarrassed that I fell so far behind on my visits...your cards are absolutely GORGEOUS! Both of your backgrounds work so well with your leaves and your autumn color palette is beautiful...so worthy of a shout out at the CAS Watercoloring Challenge :)